Memorial Soliciting Adequate Appropriations for the Construction of a State Hospital for the Insane, in the State of Mississippi, February, 1850
Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 16
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Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas J. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780674214880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war.
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-04
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 1351505718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Author: Richard Rogers Bowker
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Penny Colman
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-03
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0595437141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and the retarded.
Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9781377197999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: David Gollaher
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith vivid and sometimes horrifying detail, Gollaher describes the tireless determination of mental health crusader Dorothea Dix, as she traveled on her own throughout the country visiting jails, prisons, asylums, and almshouses in a heroic effort on behalf of the indigent insane. Photos.
Author: Richard Rogers Bowker
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Rogers Bowker
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 1060
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norman Dain
Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 328
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